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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.

Adam Gopnik

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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